Machine for making pies.



No. 817,488. PATENTED APR. l0, 1906. J. G. HUTGHISON. MACHINE FOR MAKING PIES.

APPLIGATION FILED .AUG.11.1905.

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MACHINE FOFI MAKING PIES.

Specification of Letters IIE'atent.` i

resented April 1o, 1906.

Application filed August 14, 1905. Serial No. 274,055.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH C. HU'rcHIsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Machines for Making Pies, o which the followingwis a specification.

yinvention relates to machinery for pressing and at the same time rimming crusts to be used in the manufacture of what is known to the trade as a custard or custard-pie; and it consists in further improvements based upon the machine shown and described in Letters Patent granted to me April 5, 1904, and serially numbered 7 56,639.

Particularly my object is to manually place upon a revoluble table of the machine a plate containing a cake of dough and by suitable mechanism, hereinafter described, cause the cake of dough to be brought under the action of suitable dies, whereby a crust will be molded having a rim of considerably greater thickness and strength than the body of the crust, toA

perforate the bottom of the crust to prevent the same from buckling during the' process of baking, and to discharge from the machine the plate containing the crust and guide the same to a table placed to receive it.

My invention consists, essentially, in the arrangement and combination of coacting die members and in mechanism for controlling the same, which will be hereinafter described in connection with the drawings and especially pointed out in the claims.

Reference being now had to the drawings in which my invention is illustrated, Figure 1 illustrates a plan view of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side `elevation of the machine, and Fig. 3 shows a vertical section ofthe dies detached from the machine and in a osition to mold a crust and is an enlarge section taken approximately on the line 3 3 of Fig. l.

` A indicates the frame of the machine, forming a sup ort for a bed B, which is integral and wit upri hts or standards B which have bearings orming a support for a main drivin -shaft C and for a crank-shaft D.

The bed is provided with a bearing B2 for the reception of a vertical shaft E, upon the upper end of which is mounted a turntable F and upon the lower end a ratchetwheel F. The turn-table is intermittently rotated by means of a lever F2, which is loosely journaled upon the shaft E and has a pawl FI adapted to engage the teeth of ratchet-wheel F. This lever is in operative connection with a link F", which is connected to a rod F5, and the latter by means of a link F6 is connected to the long arm of a bellcrank lever F7. The bell-crank lever receives motion from a crank-disk F9 by means of a connection-rod F, one end of which is connected to the crank-disk and the other to the short arm of the bell-crank. The turntable F is provided with aplurality of lower dies or plate-holders G, each of which has lugs g g to receive bolts g g, by which the die is detachably fastened to the turn-table. The interior of the plate-holders G are fashioned to the contour of the pie-plates, and each is provided at the bottom with an ejecting-plate G', having a stem Gr2 and a ballbearing g2, the latter to bear upon a camplate G3, which serves to raise the plate at a certain point in its travel.

The upper die I-I, which I term the crustforming die,\is secured to a cross-head I, which 1s suitably guided in the uprights I3 and receives motion from the crank-pm D of the crank-shaft D by a connecting-rod I. The shaft D is driven from the shaft C by means of a gear-wheel D2 and pinion C2, the

former of which is mounted upon the shaft D- and the latter upon the shaft C, which is also provided with a heavy drivinU-pulley'C3. The upper or crust-forminor die is provided with a pnt@ n', heid in piace by Stud-bolts h, around which are spiral sprin s S to normally press the plate downwar with the object of releasing the crust from the up er die. In addition to this plate I also emplby a plunger J, which is adapted to an opening in the center of the die PI and is acted upon by a spring S to depress the plunger in a further effort to revent the crust from adhering to the die ffgand to the plate H. In order to prevent the crust from buckling or blistering during the process of baking, it is necessary to perforate the bottom of the same, which is preferably done after the crust has left the die H. For this purpose I employ an arm K, fastened to the cross-head I and adapted to move up and down with it, and upon the free end of the arm is adjustably secured a plate K, provided with a number of perforatingroo pins K2, which are brought into engagement with the bottom of the crust when the same is in an elevated position and just prior to its removal by an arm L. This arm, which serves to guide the pie-plate and its contents IIO away from the machine, is fastened to the bed B and is bent outward, upward, and inward to clear the turn-table and the dies thereto attached and is inclined, as shown in Fig. 1, to cause the plates to slide away from the dies as the turn-table rotates.

For the purpose of causing the upper die II to register correctly with one of the lower dies G, I provide the cross-head I with a depending tongue M, tapered at the bottom, so as to pass between plates m m, fastened upon the edge of the turn-table.

I prefer to use in connection with my machine a clutch mechanism by which the power for operating the several parts may be thrown 0H the moment the operator leaves the machine,'and to accomplish this end I employ a treadle N, fulcrumed at a point 'n and normally lifted by means of a spiral spring S2, a rod n, extending from the treadle to a latch n2, and a bolt n3, journaled'in the shaft D and adapted to be thrown out of engagement with the hub of the gear-wheel D2 by the interposition of said latch.

The operation of my machine is as follows: The operator standing in front of the machine with one foot upon the treadle places in one of the lower dies a plate containing a previously-prepared lump of dough. The turntable is in due time automatically turned, and the dough is brought under the joint action of the'upper and lower dies, where a crust of the requisite thickness is molded and the same provided with a thickened rim, which may be either plain or corrugated, according to the shape of the die. The upper die is then lifted, and the turn-table is again rotated, bringing the stem of the ej ecting-plate into contact with an inclined plateor cam placed in its path, whereby the pie-plate and its contents are elevated to alevel with the upper surface of the plate-die. The cross-head carrying the upper die again descends, bringing the perforating-plate into engagement with the bottom of the crust. The crosshead is again lifted, and as the turn-table again rotates the pie-plate containing the finished crust is brought in contact with the inclined arm, which presses the same away from the die to a table or any convenient receptacle placed to receive it.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A machine of the character specified, comprising an upper movable die, a plurality of lower dies mounted upon a rotatable carrier, and provided with movable bottom plates and a cam adapted to raise said bottom plates to eject a pie.

2. A machine of the character specified, comprising a movable crust-forming die, a plurality of loweridies mounted upon a rotatable carrier, bottom plates arranged to move within the lower dies, a cam adapted to move the bottom plates and an arm adapted to move the crusts awayfrom the lower dies.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID S. WILLIAMS, ARNOLD KATZ. 

